- Crownsville, Maryland, United States
- Hybrid
- Full-time · Mid
- $85K–$106K per year
- 5–8 years
The SOC Analyst executes and helps to create operational processes for consistent monitoring of client environments, detecting and analyzing threats and cybersecurity events to identify and defend against intrusion events.
Compensation
Minimum Salary $84,774, Median Salary $105,968
Responsibilities
- Monitor, protect, and defend the enterprise perimeter against malicious network traffic.
- Monitor, protect, and defend internal networks and hosts against ongoing and emerging threats.
- Enrich monitoring logs with contextual operation data from functional areas correlate events and identify security issues, threats, and vulnerabilities
- Conduct security event analysis and validation, triage validated incidents, perform initial containment where feasible, research incident and enrich incident case documentation, and escalate the incident for further analysis, containment, and eradication.
- Review and analyze threat intelligence information and proactively search application, system, network logs to hunt and thwart relevant threats identified threats.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with a major in computer science, information systems, engineering, business, or a related scientific or technical disciplines
- Master's Degree (preferred)
- Nice to have: mid-to-advance level malware analysis
- Nice to have: regular expressions